Overview

• Savills confirmed the transaction completed in October 2024 on behalf of joint receivers Bellevue Mortlakes, with the buyer not disclosed.
• Former owner Edward Short said on August 19, 2025 that the sale brings closure and joked about hoping to buy it back with a lottery win.
• The ambitious rebuild stretched to roughly 12 years, pushed costs to about £6–7 million, and coincided with the breakdown of Short's marriage.
• The asking price fell from £10 million in 2022 after access and structural concerns, including an unsafe 1960s driveway that scuppered multiple sales.
• The Croyde property features five bedrooms, an infinity pool and a detached guest lodge on roughly three acres, with the main house anchored into the cliff bedrock.